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- Asturians are directly descended from the Astures, who were Celtic inhabitants of the northwest Iberian Peninsula before the conquest of the peninsula by the Romans which resulted in their Latinization.
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Their original language can be found in toponyms throughout Asturias, including the name of Asturias itself, which is believed to derive from the Celtic root stour meaning 'river'. Other aspects of Asturian culture have not been Latinized or Hispanicized, such as the music, mythology, and festivals which remain Celtic.
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Asturias was the first Christian kingdom of this European peninsula, and we still have many vestiges of that ancient Kingdom today -among the most noteworthy is Asturian Art or Pre-Romanesque Art, declared a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO- and also many vestiges of the nobility and the lineage that runs through the bowels of this land, which ...
Culture in Asturias boasts a remarkable UNESCO World Heritage site, particularly linked to its prehistory and medieval era, during which this land was a prominent Kingdom where the Camino de Santiago originated. Some of the most notable monuments and cultural landmarks of Pre-Romanesque Art are part of this ensemble, which would not have ...
An original culture emerged during the Mesolithic, the Asturian, typical of eastern Asturias and western Cantabria. These settlements could be found in the entrance of caves close to the sea or under shelters, generally near the coast, although they were also found in inland Cantabrian mountains .
Asturias preserves many ancestral traditions, fruit of its intense history, which nowadays are the reason for festivals and tributes.
Evidence of the Asturians' ever advancing societies exist from the Celtic era through to the bronze and medieval ages, but it was with the occupation of the Romans that the first written records of the region were established.
Contemporary cultural practices in Asturian have flourished since the 1970s. As discussed above, Asturian, like the other languages in Spain different from Spanish, was repressed during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975).
